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How many pages is Curtain?

Curtain by Agatha Christie has a median of 230 pages across 18 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 220 to 280 pages.

Median pages
230
18 editions counted
Range
184–310
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
4.1h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
63k
at 275 words per page

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Reading time
4 h 03 min
At 30 min a day
9 days
At 1 hour a day
5 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

200250300198019902000201020201975: 221 pages1975: 290 pages1975: 238 pages1975: 230 pages1975: 230 pages1976: 280 pages1976: 280 pages1984: 184 pages1989: 188 pages1992: 310 pages1992: 310 pages1993: 219 pages1998: 184 pages2000: 215 pages2002: 224 pages2003: 224 pages2014: 295 pages2024: 240 pagesmedian 230
2002503001980200020201975: 221 pages1975: 290 pages1975: 238 pages1975: 230 pages1975: 230 pages1976: 280 pages1976: 280 pages1984: 184 pages1989: 188 pages1992: 310 pages1992: 310 pages1993: 219 pages1998: 184 pages2000: 215 pages2002: 224 pages2003: 224 pages2014: 295 pages2024: 240 pagesmedian 230
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 18 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 113 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2024HarperCollins Publishers–240OL56872073M
2014Center Point Large Print–295OL26480666M
2003Collins Crime–224OL7255953M
2002Harper–224OL7261636M
2000Berkley Books–215OL3548107M
1998Literary ExpressUnknown Binding184OL8783803M
1993HarperCollins–219OL18208642M
1992G.K. Hall–310OL1707445M

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Questions

How many pages is Curtain?
About 230 pages: that is the median of 18 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 184 to 310 pages.
How long does it take to read Curtain?
About 4 h 03 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 9 days.
How many words is Curtain?
Roughly 63,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).